October 25, 2023 • 39 mins
Meaghan is off this week trying to work out the new studio settings. Mike invites Adam, the new guy to join the podcast to explain his life shifting journey into radio and talk to listeners about who has changed careers recently. We discuss what would have to happen in our neighborhood for you too move to a new house. Plus, we hear the WILDEST neighborhood stories from our live tik tok.
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Start a problem, Michael, andI am so sorry that you faced part
of it. There is one joyof being single with no kids, and
it's I have no real responsibilities.Go. This is the Slightly Messy Show
with Mike and Meghan. State meansa messy shows, messy Mike and Megan.
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It's a slightly Messy Show with Mikeand Megan. Meghan list today.
We are Megan Meghan free today andwe we do miss her. I do
miss her. But in studio isuh we already have people asking where's Megan?
Where's Megan? Meghan has just movedto Detroit, so Megan will now
be in the Detroit studios as uhas we do a little updating here.
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I'm the the Mojo in the morningshow. I think you guys can see,
uh, Adam, who's sitting rightthere? Adam? How are you?
I'm doing well? How are you? Mike? I am fin fantastic,
So yeah. To answer the questionsin the TikTok Live, we are
on TikTok Live. By the way, you could follow us on Instagram at
Slightly Messy Show at Mojo in theMorning. You can also follow Meghan and
I at on air. Mike andat Meghan Mick. So Meghan is out
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of Detroit now, which is superexciting for her. She'll be going back
and forth between Detroit and Toledo,but also spending most of her time in
the Detroit studios. So we're stillfiguring out the the workarounds, if you
will, to get Meghan on Mikehere from Detroit while they're in another studio.
It's a whole thing. But asa you know, in the business,
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now, you kind of understand thestuff we have to do, the
stuff we have to work on,and who knows, you know, I
might just be there someday, sowe'll just be recording there right instead of
having to hit all these different butts. But well, right now, we
have a wonderful guest, Adam,who is now, how long have you
been? How long have you beenin radio? Now? Eight months?
So let's tell your story because yourstory's kind of awesome. Yeah, it
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starts a long time ago. Really, I've loved radio for like forever,
even growing up. I grew upin the Detroid area, i should say,
and I would listen to Mojo onthe way to school, and I
would listen to an afternoon show calledDimnsky and Doyle on ninety seven point one
on the way home from school.I've just always loved to talk radio and
just like hearing what they have tosay and their opinions on things, and
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of course Mojo and his whole crewhas always been super super entertaining. I
actually went and visited a radio stationin high school before I went to college,
just to kind of check it out, and it never went anywhere because
I was hell bent on going intoaviation. That's what I went to Western
for, was to be a pilot. And then I found out that it
was going to cost like one hundredand fifty grand to get all of my
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licenses. So I was just like, well, that's not going to be
a thing. So I ended upchanging my major four times like any millennial
does, and I got two degrees, one in music and one in communications,
and you know this, the radiobug never left my head. Like
I made a bunch of different careerchoices along the way because I needed health
insurance and so like I got marriedright out of college and I needed health
care. So I took a jobat Western, took a bunch of other
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different jobs and kind of figured outbut nothing really felt right. And so
it was five years ago now thatI was just on Twitter one day and
Mojo's like three producers ago put uphis tweet and was like, hey,
give us a reason why you wantto go to Cedar Point and we'll pick
the best answer. And I foundout later that week that the only reason
that that was a thing was becauseyou couldn't go on the trip. Oh
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yeah, Like oh yeah, well, I don't know why you couldn't go
on the trip, but it waslike this, it was one thing you
guys did town tours. Yeah.I think I think a family member was
sick. I think I had todo with my father. Okay, if
it was three, yeah, maybeI you know, I don't know.
I don't remember. The whole thingwas up in the air all week.
So like his old producer reached outto me and was like, hey,
we might have a spot for you. We might not. We'll let you
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know, like Thursday, and thetrip was Thursday, and so she called
me Thursday morning, She's like,let's go, let's do this. The
reason I won the contest was becauseI got kicked off a roller coaster when
I was in high school because Iwas too fat to ride okay, and
Mojo, I guess had a similarstory and so that's he resonated with that
and I had lost like eighty poundsand so I got to go on the
trip, met everybody you know,did the whole week. Ended up going
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to the bar that night, andshockingly, there's not a lot going on
in Sandusky on a Thursday night,so we found right So we found the
only bar open, and of course, like the whole show was there,
so like me and my brother likeawkwardly sat in the corner and we're like,
well, we don't want to bugthem because like they're them. But
then one of the old people,Joey from the show, came over was
like your guy won the trip,Like why don't you come and hang with
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us? And so we hung outall night. We rode back to Cedar
Point. It was on the showthe next morning, and like that feeling
that I got, and it likefelt like home, almost like I figured
it out, like I needed todo that, and that bug just never
left me and so I was justlike, let's let's, you know,
continue to explore this. But thething I was most afraid of, honestly,
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was like I was about to turnthirty and changing careers quote unquote,
that laden life felt terrified, likeI was on this path to do it.
I was working at a church atthe time. I had just became
like a licensed pastor, and soI was like, but how can I
leave all that? Right? Likethis is the turtectory, right, And
then a huge life shift for ushappened and we had kids. Yeah,
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and to plug is IVF Michigan stillpart of the show. Yeah, because
you guys just did the baby thing. We got our kids through IVF Michigan.
It's one of the biggest supporters ofMojo, and and that kind of
brought those feelings back of like,man, this radio thing, it's just
like it felt like something that neverwent away. Sure, And so then
I was you know, when wehad kids, it was either I had
to stop working or my wife hadto stop working because we had twins and
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childcare was more than either of usmade. So like one of us had
to stay home, sure, andso she had health insurance. I didn't.
I stayed home. And then afterthat still couldn't shake that feeling,
right, like there's this thing thatjust kept coming and coming and coming.
And so then I was like,you know what, let's explore this a
little bit more. I ended upbeing a five at six fifty five champion,
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like thirteen days in a row.Nice, almost a fifteen timer.
Well yeah, cause but I hadto disqualify myself. I was going to
a wedding in Costa Rica, andI do remember I had to fly the
Spirit and they don't have good serviceon their part, so I had to
quit. And Mojo gave me somuch. He called me like he had
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Ellen call me and so he couldgive me crap about it. And I
was just like, Okay, somethingjust feels like it has to happen.
So I paid my way to goto this thing called Morning Show boot Camp,
and I got the student rate becausemy wife works at a college and
I enrolled in a free class soI could claim to be a student and
save like eight hundred dollars. AndI just I met a bunch of people.
I made connections. I visited theMojo Show like that September, and
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then come January, I had appliedfor a job here in I heart West
Michigan and got the call while Iwas golfing in January. Shocking enough,
And again this is where you comein again. Apparently you gave a reference
for me, having never met meonce before. I knew you from this
though. Right here, it's aslightly miss you show up, pathetic,
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absolutely athetic. Love the show.You guys are doing a great job with
Mike and Megan, so it's aslightly miss you show up, pathetic,
absolutely pathetic, love the show.You guys are doing a great job with
Mike and Megan. So if youdon't know that is actually Adam and so
on my end, what I knewis I knew you from the show.
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I knew that you called in.I knew that you you'd message me or
DM me a few times about youknow, all these stories or whatever,
and I knew, I knew thatyou had commented a bunch on our slightly
messy and to me that kind ofthat kind of hunger, that kind of
energy needs to be explored. Now, I didn't know what you were going
to do in the first eight monthsbeing here, So after that I went,
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I know this. This was soDave Taft, who was big boss
here, says it comes up tobe, hey, do you know this
guy? And he slides me overa resume and I go, oh,
yeah, yeah. Yeah, Andthis is the honest truth of what I
said. I said, the guyis hungry. He seems super into it.
He always comments on stuff. Heknows a lot about what's going on
in the building. Outside of that, I don't know. Yeah, I
mean, he could murder some butI have no idea. But it's the
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honest that yet. Yeah. Yeah, so you're good. Yeah, as
long as you don't kill anybody.For the first year, I think I've
my reference holds true. I thinkso too. Yeah, yeah, for
sure, and so thank you forthat. I mean that was a big
deal. Oh you don't yeah,and so yeah, they interviewed me and
they were weird because I live inKalamazoo and like you know, for those
I know a lot of not everybodywho listens in Michigan, but it's about
one hundred and four mile round tripfor me every day. Dr is that
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hour it's actually, well it shouldbe, but at four o'clock in the
morning, it's only about forty fiveminutes because there ain't nobody else. So
yeah, you do for those whoare listening, Adam du you work for
Wood Radio. Yeah, Wood radiosare news station new talk, and so
I'm the producer for two shows overthere, and I also work with one
of five seven on their morning show. I do their podcasting and things like
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that, okay, and then I'malso do overnights for one oh five seven
on Saturday going into Sunday nights.Oh very out of all of what's your
favorite? Out of all of itso far? Honestly, Mike, all
of it is my favorite. Thisis like the first So I'm not a
morning person. Nobody here, Idon't think knows that because I am here
every day and ready to go andenergetic because I want to be here,
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Like I wake up at three fifteenand shower and get here by four thirty
to start the show. And Ineed energy drink because that's how we survive.
But when it sounds so cliche,but when you find the thing that
is your thing and want, itdoesn't feel like work, Like none of
this feels like work. It feelslike something I get to do every day.
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I get to see and everybody hereis so cool and humble and driven
and oh my god, talented likeso I again, Radio Nerd. I
listen to all your guys's airshifts onthe weekend because I want to get better,
and so like if I'm just drivingaround on a Saturday, I pull
up your SNX shift or like Schmidtyon one five seven, or just anybody
I listened to KPS overnights or whenshe was on she's on afternoons now,
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like, I really love the fieldand I want to, you know,
sharpen my skills and listen to thosewho I look up to, and you're
certainly one of them. And stop, everybody I work here, stop,
but you're making you know how tomake a brown man blush. I appreciate.
I appreciate that, and I thinkyou are. You are what I
love to see in radio in general. And that is excitement, that is
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hunger, that is it is drive. That is somebody who cause they're in
the past in this business, therehave been people who have gone up and
down with how they feel about whatwe do every day. And I still
truly believe in radio. I trulybelive what I do every day. Uh
it is this this morning on theshow, we talked about my daughter's first
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volleyball tournament is this weekend. Veryexcited about it, super excited. But
it's also the same day as asthe trunk or Treat and so I have
to make the decision. Do Igo across, like my job is to
be on site with all these withall these people and shake hands and meet
everybody and greet listeners and all thisstuff. So do I miss my daughter's
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very vers volleyball tournament or do Igo in and Mojo being And the struggle
is is, because we love thisso much, how do you decide where's
the balance? And we work withpeople and surround ourselves with people who get
it, who have families who understandthat, and go, you know what,
you can't you you can't come tothis. Mojo told me straight up,
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do not come to this? AndI said, do not? What
do you mean? He's like,we want you here. You got to
like, obviously we want you atall these things, but you will never
ever, twenty years from now,I look back and go, oh,
I made it to that trunk ortreat, right, But you will look
back and go I went to mydaughter's very first volleyball thing, right.
And I think that kind of environmentis more important and more uh more,
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it's bigger in the in the industrynow it is, and and that's one
of the things, you know,being this is being like a later life
career change for me. I mean, I'm only thirty five, but like
when you see like I mean,you've been in the game for what fifteen
years almost now, like seventeen,so like you straight out account for young
And I know Schmidti started when shewas twenty two, straight out of college,
and so you know, coming intothis as a you know, thirty
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five almost middle aged guy, it'sdifferent. And you know, entry level
radio jobs surprise, surprise, don'tpay a ton, But that's not what's
important for us right now. AndI should say I am very lucky.
My wife makes a great living whereshe works and has great health insurance and
is able to financially support us,so I can chase this dream. And
so you know, yeah, wedo make some money with me working here.
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It's not like I'm working for freeor anything like that. But I
know that this is a beginning forme and that I want to do more
in this building or whatever building Iend up in. The Other reason we
can do this is because we boughtour house twelve years ago and aren't victims
of the current housing market, andso we're really well set up for me
to explore what I want to doand what do you want to do?
Speaking of that, what is yourultimate goal? I mean, I'd love
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to be a part of a morningshow, like a microphone on a morning
show. You with the Wood Radioproducing job, I'm on a couple times
a morning, but I would loveto do what you guys do in Detroit
or what you do here. Ilove doing my overnight shifts, that's great,
But the whole connecting with listeners thing, I think that's what really has
kept drawing me into this career field. Is like I've been able to connect
with you and Shannon and Mojo andall the crew, And then when I
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went to boot camp, I meetthese people from across the country who are
all in this same field, andthey all get it, and they all
are so personable and welcoming. Andif you're driven, you will succeed in
this industry. If you're not,you fall by the wayside. And that's
kind of what I've experienced in eightmonths and just hearing stories of previous producers
and things like that. Sure,yeah, yeah, Okay, So you
want to be Do you want yourown show? Are you looking for like
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a specific genre of like you wantTop forty? You want. I mean,
I'd love to do Top forty.That yeah, great. I also
know that, you know, unfortunatelyTop forty posts kind of have a shelf
life. I'm hoping that's not that. I mean, look at Mojo,
he's killing it and he's in hisfifties, and so I'd love to do
that. But truly, I wouldlove to be on a morning show.
I love sharing my life with people, my life experiences. I like sharing
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their life experiences. Yea, youknow, I'll go to my grave remembering
that I heard an IVF Michigan advertisementon Mojo's show, because that gave me
my children. Yeah, and Idisagree with you. I don't think Top
forty. In fact, you contradictedyourself there said Top forty hosts have a
shelf life, and then you saidMojo is still doing it. I think
he's a unicorn. Though Elvis duranIs is still doing it. That's true,
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that's true. Well, but maybethat's just me getting in my own
head again because I thought I was, you know, thirty five coming into
radio. You're never gonna you gottayou gotta drop that anything is possible in
any in this industry at all.You can do whatever you want to do.
As long as you're driven enough,you surround yourself with the right people,
you could do whatever you want,man, anything, you know.
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I just I love entertaining people.I love talking to people. I mean
I love making connections. That isa big thing for me. And that's
why that's I think probably been mybiggest challenge here so far, is because
I live so far away. Ijust can't get to all the things here
that I want to, like thesocial events that happen, or the remotes
and different things like Oh, man, man, I mean there's there's stuff
that goes on that I would justlove to come and chill out and get
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to know people. Yeah, wouldyou ever move up in like closer to
the area, because I'm I had. The reason I asked this is because
I've with Megan moving now. Alot of questions have been is your next
step to Detroit and not so I'mcurious, as somebody who's also kind of
going through the same thing, whatwould you do if the situation worked out?
I think we would. I meanwe'd certainly have the discussion. I
mean, forty five minutes at theend of the day is not that far.
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I mean, you think about like, my brother lives in New York
City and he draw or his commuteto work is an hour and a half
every day with all the trains hehas to take and the walking and stuff.
So like a lot of people arelike, oh, forty five minutes,
You're blessed to have that short ofa commute, but we would consider
it. My mother in law livesup here, and so that's super convenient.
My parents live in Detroit, andso you know, if I ever
made it all the way to theto that, then that would be cool
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too. We've always loved the ideaof moving to a warmer climate. I'm
not a snow fan, and Iknow you're not either, and so that's
something we've considered. But I thinkit would have to be to a point
where I'd be able to support usmore. I would love. Huge goal
of mine would be to have ajob to where if we had another kid,
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my wife would be able to stayhome this time around, because I
got to do that with my Ourfirst two are twins, and I have
a relationship with my kids that alot of my other dad friends don't because
I got to be with them twentyfour to seven for the first two years
of their lives and it's it wasawesome and I loved it, and it
did get a little bit quiet becauseI'm a people person, man, I
need to be talking to me,so i'd be. I remember there was
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one time I called into the showand you guys were talking about just the
dirtiest of a subject and my kidsstarted crying in the background while I was
on the phone with you guys,and I remember you said something about it.
You're like, oh my god,you're listening to this with babies in
the background, Like you won't rememberit, but like I remember this kind
of stuff because of that connection.Like that's such an important thing I think
in radio is the connection with peopleand the listeners, and like they are
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spending their time to listen to youout of the millions of things they could
literally be listening to right now,they're choosing you, right And I would
never want to take that for grant. Absolutely So, if you're in the
TikTok Live right now, it lookslike we got a few in here.
Thank you so much for joining theslightly Messy podcast recording. I have a
question, has anybody like Adam decided, you know, with with the way
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the economy is later in life,and I don't think thirty is later in
life. But you said it laterin life to make a career change,
because I don't care if I wasfifty, if I decided that I wanted
to do something else, I'm goingto do something else. What was your
career change in? What were youdoing before? So you could call into
six one, six, seven,seven out eight one oh four. I
know a lot of people don't wantto leave the live and so tho'll just
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comment in here, but you canget in there as well. Country Baby.
I love by the way, readingnames. Do you remember your very
first like user name for anything?Yeah? It was my aim name was
band rules twelve? Were you aband? Huge band person? So that's
my favorite part of this is readingthe names on tick scock. So it's
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country Baby girl, thank you forsharing the live, sweet and A nine
ten because it's never like. Minewas RMA one two three, two thousand
and then it was uh it wasbecause my initials are RMA. It was
RMA six nine six twenty. Uh. Yeah, let's see here. We
got a few comments. I'm notlater in life, but I just made
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a career change after ten years Maddiesays, what was your career change,
Like, what did you do andwhat are you doing now? Sweet Anna
says, I did five years ago. I went from education to hr Woh
those are kind of two totally separatethings, but kind of the same.
Yeah, I'm managing people banks tenten as was in retail. Now I
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work in a bank like business.That sounds like a drug dealer when you
say it like that. You alsowent an accountant on that one website.
Yeah, yeah, only the OnlyFans. Maddie says, I went from CNA
work to man. This is whyI work in top forty radio. Phlebotomy,
I think, is that a right? Flebotomy? Still healthcare, but
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different aspects? What is flebotomy?I saw the bloodrop people, Oh is
it? Why did I think thatwas butt stuff? For some reason thought
it was butt things. Megan Reagansays, I was an RMA. I
was an RMA, kept missing workdue to childcare because of COVID. Now,
what's an RMA? I just thoughtit was My initials is that any
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Oh it might be it's an Min this, but it might be adult
babysitting. Phlebotomy is so interesting automotivein Michigan to executive security in California.
That's a lifestyle change. Yeah.Yeah. If you said you wanted to
go to like a warmer place,what would be your warm place. I
mean, I've got some family inTexas. That would be cool. Texas
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would be great. Yeah, Ithink Texas would be awesome. I mean,
if I could afford to live insouthern California, that would be cool.
I mean, I love La Mywife and I took a trip out
there that was incredible. But really, just you know, I'd love not
ten feet of snow every year.Yeah, pretty solid. Yeah. I'm
finally to a point in my lifewhere I think I might go away for
a week or something like like whenwe get like radio breaks at the end
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of the year, I might gosomewhere warm. I never I've never done
to like get a refresh, justto get away from cold, get away
from winter, get away from ohI despise it. I love every single
season, every single one, spring, winter or spring, fall, summer,
love it, love it. There'sgreat things in all of it.
Winters is just nothing, no,just nothing. I don't I don't do
winter things, so like I don'tski or snowmobile or I do snowmobile.
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Yeah, but I don't have Idon't have one, so like I would
do it if I had one.Sure, but yeah, I'm with you
same same. I don't really Imean, I think we'll take the kids
sledding. So yeah, this isour first year. We're gonna do that.
There will be almost three that durableenough to get Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. So you said, Iknow you have a boy and a girl.
Girl, you said the three andso you're done with kids or you're
still up in the air. Sowe are gonna probably try again. So
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at part of the IVF journey,the infertility situation, we have four more
embryos that we could use, andso we just got to be financially ready
to do that. There's some costsassociated with that. Sure, we I
think would love to have at leastone more. I'm a little question for
you. How has it been goingfrom man coverage to his own defense now
that you have three? Well,that's the thing is like Travis Hunter for
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for the Colorado the guy who playswide receiver and also defensive back. Our
daughter has went from offense to nowdefense because she she's nine. Yeah,
so we kind of recruited her intoboth because actually know when the baby was
born, she instantly that was herbaby. He met the baby and was
like and there they're best friends now. And so now it's really just it's
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back to man coverage with an extralike free safety and you know what I
mean. Yeah, yeah, Soit's it's it's not easy by any means,
No, none of it's easy.If your parent you fully understand that,
if you even watch kids ever inyour life, you fully understand that
nine year old is more is morehelpful than we had anticipated. If I'm
being very honest, that's awesome.Four year old is a challenge. But
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he's he's my guy, he's mydude. He'll get there. He'll get
there. We're in a similar placewith our son. He so our daughter,
she like has hundreds of words,full sentences, all of her colors,
all the things. Our son onlyhas a few words. And so,
and apparently that's a common thing withboy girl twins, is that the
girl will talk for the boy andshe does that, she'll be like daddy
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brother water, which means I needto get in her brother water for some
reason. And so we're working onthat and and that can be challenging,
like not being able to have himcommunicate his exact needs and being you know,
he'll be three in April actually bornon four to twenty. Oh.
That is one of my favorite things. So yeah, no, it's but
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we definitely are talking about another one. We just don't know quite what the
timeline for that's gonna look like.It'd be nice to have a helper.
Yeah, so you know, there'llbe three in April, so you know
who else? Yeah? Yeah,and no, I mean you know you've
got a boy and a girl.If he stops, you stop. I
mean we've got siblings. Two forone deal, really is what it was?
Ye. Meghan Ranking again says youdefinitely have good and bad days.
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Oh yeah with parents, Yeah,absolutely sure, Yeah, absolutely. Do
your kids understand what you do likefor a living now? Not yet.
We actually haven't brought him here yet, so I do need to do that.
I think we already have like thingsthat I've recorded of my daughter saying
that I can't wait to you know, have her say or play on air
and then yeah, they don't theydon't quite get what I do. Yeah,
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three stays three. I think it'llbe exciting when they do, though,
yeah, when you bring them injust a suggestion. This is what
I did. Bring him in,Throw some headphones on him and just let
him just jip jab into the intothe microphone. Yeah, and they'll hear
themselves and they'll understand kind of what'shappening. And then the best part is
to years years years play it later. I know I have clips of Cecily
somewhere buried in the system, butlike when she could barely talk, sure,
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when she was barely saying words,and now to play it today,
to hear the difference even in thisright here, even in this intro intro.
Yeah that was a few years agonow, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but you can hear the difference,and I can hear the difference in
the way she talks, in theway her voice sounds. Yeah, it's
kind of it's a cool feeling.It's the best part when they when they
understand what you're doing and if theywant to be a part of it.
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I think that we are to havethat, maybe other voices recorded like that.
I mean, yeah, people havecell phones and things like that,
but it's just cool to just hearwhat comes out, yes, or like
you know, Mojo's got that recordingof Luke saying balls twenty years later.
Yeah, he's got the deepest voicein the I heard him talk recently.
I'm like, good God, he'smore of a man than any of us.
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Sarah says, my older boys areeighteen months apart. They always fought.
I get that totally. Aria takesvery good care of her brother,
which is very nice. Yeah,sess sounds so tiny, I know,
Donnie, she sounds it sounds likea little like elf like I don't even
recognize her voice today, and andshe's like doing crazy Like it's wild to
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think even when I started the show, where my daughter was and where we
were and then where we're at today, we had one kid and weren't even
married when I started at a MojoNo. Seventeen so six years about five
six years. Yeah, yeah,I know in that time I got married.
In that time, I had twokids. Like it was just it's
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it's crazy how much has changed inthat house that time. Too. Bought
a house in that time. Yeah, we were living at ooh. Speaking
of okay, you said this isyour first house or only house we've ever
bought. We bought it a yearand a half after we got married.
Okay, So did you have firsthouse troubles or is this like you got
lucky and got a good house ata good price. It was weird because
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this was, I mean ten yearsago. The housing market was way different.
Our house was on the market forlike six months, and the people
who had lived there were the originalowners and they both passed away within like
six months of each other. Huh, and so it it'd SaaS. When
we toured it, it was Februaryand all the water in the toilet was
frozen. Oh I'll never forget thatbecause they didn't turn any of the heat
one and so that was a littletroubling. The house needed a lot of
(26:29):
work, and we've been doing thatover the years. We just readid our
kitchen this summer. That was abig project for us. So, you
know, regardless of what happens,we're never gonna let go of the house
because at this point we could rentit for like triple what our mortgage is.
Yeah, and so like that couldbe something that helps us move.
Yeah, yeah, that's a greatidea. We our first house was just
an absolute dumpster fire. Yeah,it was the worst. And that's when
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I had started on the show.I was only doing I think it was
only doing nights at the time.So like we bought the house that I
could afford at the time, becausebasically essentially, like I grew up on
the radio station straight out of collegetwenty one year and not even twenty one.
I was only twenty years old,and uh so like grew up.
So like everybody in West Michigan hasknown me as probably two or three different
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names, and so then now tocome to the show, like it's like
those years of like true adulthood,like I I went, we had that
house, dude, and literally ithad a hole in the roof the week
that I moved in, it wasthe furnace went out. And I would
love to hear first house or firstor bad home stories six one, six,
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seven, seven oh eight, oneoh four, because I think you
found like a unicorn. It's veryrare that you it had. It's the
first night we moved in. Wedidn't notice because we didn't test the hot
water. The shower did not havehot water, you know, God bless
him. My I had an uncle, he passed away a couple of years
ago, but he came out thatnight from Detroit and was like, I'm
gonna fix your pipes, and hedid, came out and we had hot
water three hours later. That wasnice. It was so nice. I
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desperately missed that man. He wasa good guy. We had a flooded
basement Sover. We live by ariver, so every spring that water would
go up and the water table wouldgo up in the basement. Would it
was. I used to call itlike when we were going to sell the
house, I was like, shouldI put we have an indoor pool in
the house. It was so fuckingbad. It was so bad. Donnie,
you gotta call in. You gottacall in Donnie six six seven eight
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four. She says her basement startedto flood a month after they bought the
house. That's devastating, yes,yeah, and then there's not like you
have to report that. Yeah,you have to report like my house flooded
and explain like that you've tried tofix it, and then it takes the
value down. The only reason Ithink we sold that house in the time
that we sold it is because thehousing market changed right around twenty twenty.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it went it skyrocketed. YEP.
I gotta switch a setting here becausewe got a call coming in fun for
my first call, I think it'sDonnie. If I had to guess,
Hello, hey Mike, it's Donnie. Donnie. Oh you can't we do
that? Yeah, well, I'lljust turn off the mics while she's stuck
and go ahead, Donny. Wouldyou want to say? Oh? I
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was just saying. After my husbandand I bought our first home, it
started to flood in the basement likea month after we bought it. And
it was so scary because when webought our house, I think we had
like less than a thousand bucks inour bank account, so we couldn't do
a whole lot. It's so scarybuying a home. Was that your first
house? Yeah? First house?And so since then, I'm assuming you
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moved correct? No? No,no, no, no, I mean
we got it. We gotta fix. I mean, it's just like the
pipes are just weird. But no, my husband is very awesome and he
could do things that I know hecould, and I mean it's fixed.
We're good. It's just scary.See. I wish I had that ability,
like I could YouTube some things,like I could put on like a
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I could I could fix or puttogether a LI switch. That's about as
far as I go. But yourhusband can like build stuff like that's my
husband is crazy, crazy cool.That's awesome. And what I forget?
What area are you in too?We're on no Vi no Vie. That's
right, that's right, Yeah,it is absolutely is. Well that's just
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where we work, but we welive in Lavonia area. Oh okay,
okay, Well I appreciate Donnie.I always appreciate you. But it was
so good to see you. Itwas so good to see you Friday.
Was it Friday night? Saturday Friday? It was a wild night. It
sounded like it. I'll talk toyou later. Yeah, so, uh
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we got some more comments here.Sarah says, we had a just coozy
tub put in our house. Oh, first night there, I went to
use it. The water heater wasn'tbig enough to fill it. So what
does that do? Then? Doesthat make it hold water? I had?
That's so the house that we movedin the same one. It was
the first house had We didn't knowabout the roof. They hid that.
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They basically covered it with shingles.So there was a hole. They covered
it with shingles and the heat wentout the first week that we moved in.
But The only reason I bought thehouse is because it had one of
those jacuzzi same as her. Ithad a jacuzzi bathtub. It was the
only nice thing in the entire house. And I'm like, this is the
greatest my wife for and I aregoing to use this all the time.
(31:29):
We maybe used it three times,maybe used it three Meghan, says.
Megan Rankin says. When we wereselling our house, my neighbor ended up.
WHOA, this story went sideways quick. I'm gonna read it, but
it went sideways quick. When wewere selling our house, my neighbor ended
up killing someone in a hit andrun. WHOA? Okay, Megan,
(31:55):
I would love for you to callin because I have a million questions.
But if you can only answer onhere, the number is six one,
six, seven, seven out eightone oh four. If that happens,
Adam, that happens in your neighborhood, right, you just move in even
today, something like that happens inyour neighborhood? Are you moving? Are
you staying in that neighborhood? Howclose to my house was the hidden run?
It? Does it? I mean, I'm not even saying it's the
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hit and run happens by your house. I'm saying, your neighbor does it.
Oh, my neighbor kills somebody.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm not entirely sure my neighbor hasn'tkilled somebody. I think we all
got that one neighbor. I thinki'd probably stay, depending on which neighbor
it was. I have one thatwould creep me out enough, I'd probably
fail. I don't know. Iget you're right, though. There is
always that one. There's always thatone. If you post it the other
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day, your neighbor cutting is grassat night, dude, dude. This
guy i've met, I met.So the way my house is set up,
I have a neighbors on two cornersand then I'm kind of on the
corner of my block or whatever.So the two neighbors, when I first
met him, they were very adamantto a show me where the lines were.
That's right, right, right,right right. But they also pee
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on it just to you know exactlywhat it was. That's exactly what it
was. So I U the oneneighbor I don't even talk to, and
the other neighbor, he only isoutside to mow his lawn. And this
guy is very Their lawns look incredible. Now my lawn is is it's it's
an average lawn if I'm seeds.Yeah, so this guy will mow his
(33:19):
lawn at night, and then itbrings up the question why at night?
Like is there a reason for atnight? But also why do lawn mowers
have have lights on them if notto mow the lawn at night? So
then maybe I'm the weird one fornot mowing my lawn at night. No,
you're not. That's weird. Ithought so too, But they're there
the second I moved in, andthe line's not even correct, so eventually
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I want to correct him. Ijust have a reason to, Like,
if I wanted to put up afence, like I would just go and
get a like all that, butI want to be because they were so
petty about it when I first movedin there. Yeah, I now my
other two neighbors, like right acrossthe street some of the best human beings
I'll ever I've ever met. Mytoo. I go watch uh football games
in my neighbor's garage. Just thosedudes. Just I don't understand it,
(34:05):
but just those dudes. Megan hascommented again and said this is the the
hit and run story said he gotrid of the car the very next day.
We had police in front of thehouse watching him. That is a
wild story. So they hit andkilled somebody, yes, and they the
next day got rid of the car. Yes, and so then police yeah.
(34:29):
And then so then after that thepolice were sitting outside. So now
you have to sit outside, likesit outside and watch her, or sit
and look outside your hot window andwatch the neighbors get basically raided. Yeah,
I think I'm done. Then thenthat's gonna do it. They said
it wasn't far from Grand Rapids.You'd probably remember it. I don't remember
that story. That's kind of crazy. Maybe your neighbors moe at night because
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they're allergic to the sun because they'revampires. You could be right, you
were hundred percent, could be right. He went on the house on the
run, his house was rated.I don't know. Okay, my god,
that's that's that's a good question.What is the thing though, that
if your neighbor did it, Ifyour neighbor did it, it was in
Toledo, That's what Megan's saying.If your neighbor did it, though,
(35:14):
you would move, Like, whatis the line because my neighbor's dog hoops
in my lawn every now and then. And that's not the that's not the
line. I'm not gonna move,No, but I'm not. Yeah,
yeah, oh god, what isthe line in today's housing market? I
don't know. I don't know.I don't know. I think if I
lived in an area where like abunch of people were having parties, that
(35:35):
might be it. I mean i'dprobably go join though, yeah, well
not with this job anymore though,because bed time's eight thirty. Yeah I
might. I might every now andthen, I guess if it got out
of hand, But that wouldn't bethe thing though right now that I think
would make me move. We havea neighbor that I think if she got
worse, we would move. Shecomments on all the other houses like she's
like a hundred and just has nothingbetter to do than to just be outside
(35:58):
and like watch all of us.And apparently she talk ship to other neighbors
about other neighbors. Are you serious, Oh it's awful. Yeah, we
all don't like her, so we'reall kind of just like counting down the
days, you know, a hundred. Oh yeah, i'd start zillowing that
house, Like how much is that? Oh we did. It's like one
point two mill and it's a crossthe street from ours and ars isn't word
near that. I don't know howthis lady, Oh, yeah, totally.
(36:21):
She's got she's got some cash,that's for. She gets a new
car every year, and she's stilldriving. She can barely see you over
the steering wheel. I guess that. I guess if I'm one hundred and
I got millions just sitting there,I might just judge the neighbors. That's
all she does. Got the better. Apparently I need to cut my grass
more. She told the next doorname of that told me, I hate
the lawn police. I hate hatelike I got kids, I got stuff.
(36:43):
Yeah, mine's bad right now,I'll be honest. But it's gonna
snow like monday. Yeah all right, right, got time for that.
Megan is telling more of this story, and I got she's working. Oh
I wish she could call in.We could write you a letter. Yeah,
got to work for like fifteen minutes. Yeah, she says, the
cops couldn't prove it it was him, but Google Maps had just updated and
(37:04):
you could see the car and thedriveway. Tell me it didn't have like
a blood dead to the man hekilled was just crossing the road and was
in his seventies. That is thecraziest fucking story in the entire world.
That is absolutely insane because there's somany questions that I have with that.
Like, first, my next thingI will angle, I would want to
(37:29):
take on this is like, howdid Google bust you? How did Google
Maps bust you? Did? GoogleMaps? Like, I'm sure Google Maps
has busted people before. Oh,Schmidy did a story on our show recently
where Google Maps had driven by andsaw a dude kissing a chick that wasn't
his wife. See, I betit happens more and more and more.
I watch out that car man.They're gonna be cheating if you're doing shady
(37:50):
stuff. Yeah yeah, the moralof the stories don't do shady stuff.
Yeah, Donnie says. My neighborsliterally leaf blowed the driveway eighty seven times
a day. Cann't tell you though, Like that's annoying, but also there
is something satisfying about leaf blowing.I don't know why. What else is
satisfying is when the snow just coversthem all. Don't do it? Oh
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well, Adam, thank you somuch for coming on. I do appreciate
it. It's we're already forty fiveminutes in. You gotta be kidding.
Yeah, I know what. I'msure you're tired. You've been here since
three o'clock in the morning. Iappreciate it. Thank you for the opportunity.
Like, it's just so cool tobe able to do this, and
I how much I can kiss yourass, But like I look up to
you so much, I'm gonna needyou to tongue things and then you can
(38:34):
be done. Okay, that's fine, you have to talk to Ali.
You know. I appreciate you andeverybody I get to learn from here.
It has been an absolute dream crewthe last eight months. And you know,
for those watching or listening later,thirty five is not too old to
change your career or whatever. Ageis not too old to change your careers.
Follow what you want to do.Yeah, it's like, so you
were gonna end with this. Idon't know why I didn't even think that.
(38:55):
It's a slightly missy show. Uppathetic, absolutely Lee pathetic. Love
the show. You guys are doinga great job with Mike and Megan. M
Start a problem, Michael, andI am so sorry that you faced part
of it. There is one joyof being single with no kids, and
it's I have no real responsibilities.Go. This is the Slightly Messy Show
with Mike and Meghan. State meansa messy shows, messy Mike and Megan.
(00:26):
It's a slightly Messy Show with Mikeand Megan. Meghan list today.
We are Megan Meghan free today andwe we do miss her. I do
miss her. But in studio isuh we already have people asking where's Megan?
Where's Megan? Meghan has just movedto Detroit, so Megan will now
be in the Detroit studios as uhas we do a little updating here.
(00:52):
I'm the the Mojo in the morningshow. I think you guys can see,
uh, Adam, who's sitting rightthere? Adam? How are you?
I'm doing well? How are you? Mike? I am fin fantastic,
So yeah. To answer the questionsin the TikTok Live, we are
on TikTok Live. By the way, you could follow us on Instagram at
Slightly Messy Show at Mojo in theMorning. You can also follow Meghan and
I at on air. Mike andat Meghan Mick. So Meghan is out
(01:18):
of Detroit now, which is superexciting for her. She'll be going back
and forth between Detroit and Toledo,but also spending most of her time in
the Detroit studios. So we're stillfiguring out the the workarounds, if you
will, to get Meghan on Mikehere from Detroit while they're in another studio.
It's a whole thing. But asa you know, in the business,
(01:42):
now, you kind of understand thestuff we have to do, the
stuff we have to work on,and who knows, you know, I
might just be there someday, sowe'll just be recording there right instead of
having to hit all these different butts. But well, right now, we
have a wonderful guest, Adam,who is now, how long have you
been? How long have you beenin radio? Now? Eight months?
So let's tell your story because yourstory's kind of awesome. Yeah, it
(02:06):
starts a long time ago. Really, I've loved radio for like forever,
even growing up. I grew upin the Detroid area, i should say,
and I would listen to Mojo onthe way to school, and I
would listen to an afternoon show calledDimnsky and Doyle on ninety seven point one
on the way home from school.I've just always loved to talk radio and
just like hearing what they have tosay and their opinions on things, and
(02:28):
of course Mojo and his whole crewhas always been super super entertaining. I
actually went and visited a radio stationin high school before I went to college,
just to kind of check it out, and it never went anywhere because
I was hell bent on going intoaviation. That's what I went to Western
for, was to be a pilot. And then I found out that it
was going to cost like one hundredand fifty grand to get all of my
(02:50):
licenses. So I was just like, well, that's not going to be
a thing. So I ended upchanging my major four times like any millennial
does, and I got two degrees, one in music and one in communications,
and you know this, the radiobug never left my head. Like
I made a bunch of different careerchoices along the way because I needed health
insurance and so like I got marriedright out of college and I needed health
care. So I took a jobat Western, took a bunch of other
(03:13):
different jobs and kind of figured outbut nothing really felt right. And so
it was five years ago now thatI was just on Twitter one day and
Mojo's like three producers ago put uphis tweet and was like, hey,
give us a reason why you wantto go to Cedar Point and we'll pick
the best answer. And I foundout later that week that the only reason
that that was a thing was becauseyou couldn't go on the trip. Oh
(03:37):
yeah, Like oh yeah, well, I don't know why you couldn't go
on the trip, but it waslike this, it was one thing you
guys did town tours. Yeah.I think I think a family member was
sick. I think I had todo with my father. Okay, if
it was three, yeah, maybeI you know, I don't know.
I don't remember. The whole thingwas up in the air all week.
So like his old producer reached outto me and was like, hey,
we might have a spot for you. We might not. We'll let you
(03:58):
know, like Thursday, and thetrip was Thursday, and so she called
me Thursday morning, She's like,let's go, let's do this. The
reason I won the contest was becauseI got kicked off a roller coaster when
I was in high school because Iwas too fat to ride okay, and
Mojo, I guess had a similarstory and so that's he resonated with that
and I had lost like eighty poundsand so I got to go on the
trip, met everybody you know,did the whole week. Ended up going
(04:19):
to the bar that night, andshockingly, there's not a lot going on
in Sandusky on a Thursday night,so we found right So we found the
only bar open, and of course, like the whole show was there,
so like me and my brother likeawkwardly sat in the corner and we're like,
well, we don't want to bugthem because like they're them. But
then one of the old people,Joey from the show, came over was
like your guy won the trip,Like why don't you come and hang with
(04:40):
us? And so we hung outall night. We rode back to Cedar
Point. It was on the showthe next morning, and like that feeling
that I got, and it likefelt like home, almost like I figured
it out, like I needed todo that, and that bug just never
left me and so I was justlike, let's let's, you know,
continue to explore this. But thething I was most afraid of, honestly,
(05:00):
was like I was about to turnthirty and changing careers quote unquote,
that laden life felt terrified, likeI was on this path to do it.
I was working at a church atthe time. I had just became
like a licensed pastor, and soI was like, but how can I
leave all that? Right? Likethis is the turtectory, right, And
then a huge life shift for ushappened and we had kids. Yeah,
(05:23):
and to plug is IVF Michigan stillpart of the show. Yeah, because
you guys just did the baby thing. We got our kids through IVF Michigan.
It's one of the biggest supporters ofMojo, and and that kind of
brought those feelings back of like,man, this radio thing, it's just
like it felt like something that neverwent away. Sure, And so then
I was you know, when wehad kids, it was either I had
to stop working or my wife hadto stop working because we had twins and
(05:45):
childcare was more than either of usmade. So like one of us had
to stay home, sure, andso she had health insurance. I didn't.
I stayed home. And then afterthat still couldn't shake that feeling,
right, like there's this thing thatjust kept coming and coming and coming.
And so then I was like,you know what, let's explore this a
little bit more. I ended upbeing a five at six fifty five champion,
(06:06):
like thirteen days in a row.Nice, almost a fifteen timer.
Well yeah, cause but I hadto disqualify myself. I was going to
a wedding in Costa Rica, andI do remember I had to fly the
Spirit and they don't have good serviceon their part, so I had to
quit. And Mojo gave me somuch. He called me like he had
(06:27):
Ellen call me and so he couldgive me crap about it. And I
was just like, Okay, somethingjust feels like it has to happen.
So I paid my way to goto this thing called Morning Show boot Camp,
and I got the student rate becausemy wife works at a college and
I enrolled in a free class soI could claim to be a student and
save like eight hundred dollars. AndI just I met a bunch of people.
I made connections. I visited theMojo Show like that September, and
(06:50):
then come January, I had appliedfor a job here in I heart West
Michigan and got the call while Iwas golfing in January. Shocking enough,
And again this is where you comein again. Apparently you gave a reference
for me, having never met meonce before. I knew you from this
though. Right here, it's aslightly miss you show up, pathetic,
(07:11):
absolutely athetic. Love the show.You guys are doing a great job with
Mike and Megan, so it's aslightly miss you show up, pathetic,
absolutely pathetic, love the show.You guys are doing a great job with
Mike and Megan. So if youdon't know that is actually Adam and so
on my end, what I knewis I knew you from the show.
(07:33):
I knew that you called in.I knew that you you'd message me or
DM me a few times about youknow, all these stories or whatever,
and I knew, I knew thatyou had commented a bunch on our slightly
messy and to me that kind ofthat kind of hunger, that kind of
energy needs to be explored. Now, I didn't know what you were going
to do in the first eight monthsbeing here, So after that I went,
(07:56):
I know this. This was soDave Taft, who was big boss
here, says it comes up tobe, hey, do you know this
guy? And he slides me overa resume and I go, oh,
yeah, yeah. Yeah, Andthis is the honest truth of what I
said. I said, the guyis hungry. He seems super into it.
He always comments on stuff. Heknows a lot about what's going on
in the building. Outside of that, I don't know. Yeah, I
mean, he could murder some butI have no idea. But it's the
(08:18):
honest that yet. Yeah. Yeah, so you're good. Yeah, as
long as you don't kill anybody.For the first year, I think I've
my reference holds true. I thinkso too. Yeah, yeah, for
sure, and so thank you forthat. I mean that was a big
deal. Oh you don't yeah,and so yeah, they interviewed me and
they were weird because I live inKalamazoo and like you know, for those
I know a lot of not everybodywho listens in Michigan, but it's about
one hundred and four mile round tripfor me every day. Dr is that
(08:41):
hour it's actually, well it shouldbe, but at four o'clock in the
morning, it's only about forty fiveminutes because there ain't nobody else. So
yeah, you do for those whoare listening, Adam du you work for
Wood Radio. Yeah, Wood radiosare news station new talk, and so
I'm the producer for two shows overthere, and I also work with one
of five seven on their morning show. I do their podcasting and things like
(09:01):
that, okay, and then I'malso do overnights for one oh five seven
on Saturday going into Sunday nights.Oh very out of all of what's your
favorite? Out of all of itso far? Honestly, Mike, all
of it is my favorite. Thisis like the first So I'm not a
morning person. Nobody here, Idon't think knows that because I am here
every day and ready to go andenergetic because I want to be here,
(09:24):
Like I wake up at three fifteenand shower and get here by four thirty
to start the show. And Ineed energy drink because that's how we survive.
But when it sounds so cliche,but when you find the thing that
is your thing and want, itdoesn't feel like work, Like none of
this feels like work. It feelslike something I get to do every day.
(09:46):
I get to see and everybody hereis so cool and humble and driven
and oh my god, talented likeso I again, Radio Nerd. I
listen to all your guys's airshifts onthe weekend because I want to get better,
and so like if I'm just drivingaround on a Saturday, I pull
up your SNX shift or like Schmidtyon one five seven, or just anybody
I listened to KPS overnights or whenshe was on she's on afternoons now,
(10:09):
like, I really love the fieldand I want to, you know,
sharpen my skills and listen to thosewho I look up to, and you're
certainly one of them. And stop, everybody I work here, stop,
but you're making you know how tomake a brown man blush. I appreciate.
I appreciate that, and I thinkyou are. You are what I
love to see in radio in general. And that is excitement, that is
(10:31):
hunger, that is it is drive. That is somebody who cause they're in
the past in this business, therehave been people who have gone up and
down with how they feel about whatwe do every day. And I still
truly believe in radio. I trulybelive what I do every day. Uh
it is this this morning on theshow, we talked about my daughter's first
(10:52):
volleyball tournament is this weekend. Veryexcited about it, super excited. But
it's also the same day as asthe trunk or Treat and so I have
to make the decision. Do Igo across, like my job is to
be on site with all these withall these people and shake hands and meet
everybody and greet listeners and all thisstuff. So do I miss my daughter's
(11:13):
very vers volleyball tournament or do Igo in and Mojo being And the struggle
is is, because we love thisso much, how do you decide where's
the balance? And we work withpeople and surround ourselves with people who get
it, who have families who understandthat, and go, you know what,
you can't you you can't come tothis. Mojo told me straight up,
(11:37):
do not come to this? AndI said, do not? What
do you mean? He's like,we want you here. You got to
like, obviously we want you atall these things, but you will never
ever, twenty years from now,I look back and go, oh,
I made it to that trunk ortreat, right, But you will look
back and go I went to mydaughter's very first volleyball thing, right.
And I think that kind of environmentis more important and more uh more,
(12:01):
it's bigger in the in the industrynow it is, and and that's one
of the things, you know,being this is being like a later life
career change for me. I mean, I'm only thirty five, but like
when you see like I mean,you've been in the game for what fifteen
years almost now, like seventeen,so like you straight out account for young
And I know Schmidti started when shewas twenty two, straight out of college,
and so you know, coming intothis as a you know, thirty
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five almost middle aged guy, it'sdifferent. And you know, entry level
radio jobs surprise, surprise, don'tpay a ton, But that's not what's
important for us right now. AndI should say I am very lucky.
My wife makes a great living whereshe works and has great health insurance and
is able to financially support us,so I can chase this dream. And
so you know, yeah, wedo make some money with me working here.
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It's not like I'm working for freeor anything like that. But I
know that this is a beginning forme and that I want to do more
in this building or whatever building Iend up in. The Other reason we
can do this is because we boughtour house twelve years ago and aren't victims
of the current housing market, andso we're really well set up for me
to explore what I want to doand what do you want to do?
Speaking of that, what is yourultimate goal? I mean, I'd love
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to be a part of a morningshow, like a microphone on a morning
show. You with the Wood Radioproducing job, I'm on a couple times
a morning, but I would loveto do what you guys do in Detroit
or what you do here. Ilove doing my overnight shifts, that's great,
But the whole connecting with listeners thing, I think that's what really has
kept drawing me into this career field. Is like I've been able to connect
with you and Shannon and Mojo andall the crew, And then when I
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went to boot camp, I meetthese people from across the country who are
all in this same field, andthey all get it, and they all
are so personable and welcoming. Andif you're driven, you will succeed in
this industry. If you're not,you fall by the wayside. And that's
kind of what I've experienced in eightmonths and just hearing stories of previous producers
and things like that. Sure,yeah, yeah, Okay, So you
want to be Do you want yourown show? Are you looking for like
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a specific genre of like you wantTop forty? You want. I mean,
I'd love to do Top forty.That yeah, great. I also
know that, you know, unfortunatelyTop forty posts kind of have a shelf
life. I'm hoping that's not that. I mean, look at Mojo,
he's killing it and he's in hisfifties, and so I'd love to do
that. But truly, I wouldlove to be on a morning show.
I love sharing my life with people, my life experiences. I like sharing
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their life experiences. Yea, youknow, I'll go to my grave remembering
that I heard an IVF Michigan advertisementon Mojo's show, because that gave me
my children. Yeah, and Idisagree with you. I don't think Top
forty. In fact, you contradictedyourself there said Top forty hosts have a
shelf life, and then you saidMojo is still doing it. I think
he's a unicorn. Though Elvis duranIs is still doing it. That's true,
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that's true. Well, but maybethat's just me getting in my own
head again because I thought I was, you know, thirty five coming into
radio. You're never gonna you gottayou gotta drop that anything is possible in
any in this industry at all.You can do whatever you want to do.
As long as you're driven enough,you surround yourself with the right people,
you could do whatever you want,man, anything, you know.
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I just I love entertaining people.I love talking to people. I mean
I love making connections. That isa big thing for me. And that's
why that's I think probably been mybiggest challenge here so far, is because
I live so far away. Ijust can't get to all the things here
that I want to, like thesocial events that happen, or the remotes
and different things like Oh, man, man, I mean there's there's stuff
that goes on that I would justlove to come and chill out and get
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to know people. Yeah, wouldyou ever move up in like closer to
the area, because I'm I had. The reason I asked this is because
I've with Megan moving now. Alot of questions have been is your next
step to Detroit and not so I'mcurious, as somebody who's also kind of
going through the same thing, whatwould you do if the situation worked out?
I think we would. I meanwe'd certainly have the discussion. I
mean, forty five minutes at theend of the day is not that far.
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I mean, you think about like, my brother lives in New York
City and he draw or his commuteto work is an hour and a half
every day with all the trains hehas to take and the walking and stuff.
So like a lot of people arelike, oh, forty five minutes,
You're blessed to have that short ofa commute, but we would consider
it. My mother in law livesup here, and so that's super convenient.
My parents live in Detroit, andso you know, if I ever
made it all the way to theto that, then that would be cool
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too. We've always loved the ideaof moving to a warmer climate. I'm
not a snow fan, and Iknow you're not either, and so that's
something we've considered. But I thinkit would have to be to a point
where I'd be able to support usmore. I would love. Huge goal
of mine would be to have ajob to where if we had another kid,
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my wife would be able to stayhome this time around, because I
got to do that with my Ourfirst two are twins, and I have
a relationship with my kids that alot of my other dad friends don't because
I got to be with them twentyfour to seven for the first two years
of their lives and it's it wasawesome and I loved it, and it
did get a little bit quiet becauseI'm a people person, man, I
need to be talking to me,so i'd be. I remember there was
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one time I called into the showand you guys were talking about just the
dirtiest of a subject and my kidsstarted crying in the background while I was
on the phone with you guys,and I remember you said something about it.
You're like, oh my god,you're listening to this with babies in
the background, Like you won't rememberit, but like I remember this kind
of stuff because of that connection.Like that's such an important thing I think
in radio is the connection with peopleand the listeners, and like they are
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spending their time to listen to youout of the millions of things they could
literally be listening to right now,they're choosing you, right And I would
never want to take that for grant. Absolutely So, if you're in the
TikTok Live right now, it lookslike we got a few in here.
Thank you so much for joining theslightly Messy podcast recording. I have a
question, has anybody like Adam decided, you know, with with the way
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the economy is later in life,and I don't think thirty is later in
life. But you said it laterin life to make a career change,
because I don't care if I wasfifty, if I decided that I wanted
to do something else, I'm goingto do something else. What was your
career change in? What were youdoing before? So you could call into
six one, six, seven,seven out eight one oh four. I
know a lot of people don't wantto leave the live and so tho'll just
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comment in here, but you canget in there as well. Country Baby.
I love by the way, readingnames. Do you remember your very
first like user name for anything?Yeah? It was my aim name was
band rules twelve? Were you aband? Huge band person? So that's
my favorite part of this is readingthe names on tick scock. So it's
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country Baby girl, thank you forsharing the live, sweet and A nine
ten because it's never like. Minewas RMA one two three, two thousand
and then it was uh it wasbecause my initials are RMA. It was
RMA six nine six twenty. Uh. Yeah, let's see here. We
got a few comments. I'm notlater in life, but I just made
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a career change after ten years Maddiesays, what was your career change,
Like, what did you do andwhat are you doing now? Sweet Anna
says, I did five years ago. I went from education to hr Woh
those are kind of two totally separatethings, but kind of the same.
Yeah, I'm managing people banks tenten as was in retail. Now I
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work in a bank like business.That sounds like a drug dealer when you
say it like that. You alsowent an accountant on that one website.
Yeah, yeah, only the OnlyFans. Maddie says, I went from CNA
work to man. This is whyI work in top forty radio. Phlebotomy,
I think, is that a right? Flebotomy? Still healthcare, but
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different aspects? What is flebotomy?I saw the bloodrop people, Oh is
it? Why did I think thatwas butt stuff? For some reason thought
it was butt things. Megan Reagansays, I was an RMA. I
was an RMA, kept missing workdue to childcare because of COVID. Now,
what's an RMA? I just thoughtit was My initials is that any
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Oh it might be it's an Min this, but it might be adult
babysitting. Phlebotomy is so interesting automotivein Michigan to executive security in California.
That's a lifestyle change. Yeah.Yeah. If you said you wanted to
go to like a warmer place,what would be your warm place. I
mean, I've got some family inTexas. That would be cool. Texas
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would be great. Yeah, Ithink Texas would be awesome. I mean,
if I could afford to live insouthern California, that would be cool.
I mean, I love La Mywife and I took a trip out
there that was incredible. But really, just you know, I'd love not
ten feet of snow every year.Yeah, pretty solid. Yeah. I'm
finally to a point in my lifewhere I think I might go away for
a week or something like like whenwe get like radio breaks at the end
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of the year, I might gosomewhere warm. I never I've never done
to like get a refresh, justto get away from cold, get away
from winter, get away from ohI despise it. I love every single
season, every single one, spring, winter or spring, fall, summer,
love it, love it. There'sgreat things in all of it.
Winters is just nothing, no,just nothing. I don't I don't do
winter things, so like I don'tski or snowmobile or I do snowmobile.
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Yeah, but I don't have Idon't have one, so like I would
do it if I had one.Sure, but yeah, I'm with you
same same. I don't really Imean, I think we'll take the kids
sledding. So yeah, this isour first year. We're gonna do that.
There will be almost three that durableenough to get Yeah. Yeah,
yeah. So you said, Iknow you have a boy and a girl.
Girl, you said the three andso you're done with kids or you're
still up in the air. Sowe are gonna probably try again. So
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at part of the IVF journey,the infertility situation, we have four more
embryos that we could use, andso we just got to be financially ready
to do that. There's some costsassociated with that. Sure, we I
think would love to have at leastone more. I'm a little question for
you. How has it been goingfrom man coverage to his own defense now
that you have three? Well,that's the thing is like Travis Hunter for
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for the Colorado the guy who playswide receiver and also defensive back. Our
daughter has went from offense to nowdefense because she she's nine. Yeah,
so we kind of recruited her intoboth because actually know when the baby was
born, she instantly that was herbaby. He met the baby and was
like and there they're best friends now. And so now it's really just it's
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back to man coverage with an extralike free safety and you know what I
mean. Yeah, yeah, Soit's it's it's not easy by any means,
No, none of it's easy.If your parent you fully understand that,
if you even watch kids ever inyour life, you fully understand that
nine year old is more is morehelpful than we had anticipated. If I'm
being very honest, that's awesome.Four year old is a challenge. But
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he's he's my guy, he's mydude. He'll get there. He'll get
there. We're in a similar placewith our son. He so our daughter,
she like has hundreds of words,full sentences, all of her colors,
all the things. Our son onlyhas a few words. And so,
and apparently that's a common thing withboy girl twins, is that the
girl will talk for the boy andshe does that, she'll be like daddy
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brother water, which means I needto get in her brother water for some
reason. And so we're working onthat and and that can be challenging,
like not being able to have himcommunicate his exact needs and being you know,
he'll be three in April actually bornon four to twenty. Oh.
That is one of my favorite things. So yeah, no, it's but
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we definitely are talking about another one. We just don't know quite what the
timeline for that's gonna look like.It'd be nice to have a helper.
Yeah, so you know, there'llbe three in April, so you know
who else? Yeah? Yeah,and no, I mean you know you've
got a boy and a girl.If he stops, you stop. I
mean we've got siblings. Two forone deal, really is what it was?
Ye. Meghan Ranking again says youdefinitely have good and bad days.
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Oh yeah with parents, Yeah,absolutely sure, Yeah, absolutely. Do
your kids understand what you do likefor a living now? Not yet.
We actually haven't brought him here yet, so I do need to do that.
I think we already have like thingsthat I've recorded of my daughter saying
that I can't wait to you know, have her say or play on air
and then yeah, they don't theydon't quite get what I do. Yeah,
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three stays three. I think it'llbe exciting when they do, though,
yeah, when you bring them injust a suggestion. This is what
I did. Bring him in,Throw some headphones on him and just let
him just jip jab into the intothe microphone. Yeah, and they'll hear
themselves and they'll understand kind of what'shappening. And then the best part is
to years years years play it later. I know I have clips of Cecily
somewhere buried in the system, butlike when she could barely talk, sure,
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when she was barely saying words,and now to play it today,
to hear the difference even in thisright here, even in this intro intro.
Yeah that was a few years agonow, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but you can hear the difference,and I can hear the difference in
the way she talks, in theway her voice sounds. Yeah, it's
kind of it's a cool feeling.It's the best part when they when they
understand what you're doing and if theywant to be a part of it.
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I think that we are to havethat, maybe other voices recorded like that.
I mean, yeah, people havecell phones and things like that,
but it's just cool to just hearwhat comes out, yes, or like
you know, Mojo's got that recordingof Luke saying balls twenty years later.
Yeah, he's got the deepest voicein the I heard him talk recently.
I'm like, good God, he'smore of a man than any of us.
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Sarah says, my older boys areeighteen months apart. They always fought.
I get that totally. Aria takesvery good care of her brother,
which is very nice. Yeah,sess sounds so tiny, I know,
Donnie, she sounds it sounds likea little like elf like I don't even
recognize her voice today, and andshe's like doing crazy Like it's wild to
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think even when I started the show, where my daughter was and where we
were and then where we're at today, we had one kid and weren't even
married when I started at a MojoNo. Seventeen so six years about five
six years. Yeah, yeah,I know in that time I got married.
In that time, I had twokids. Like it was just it's
(25:45):
it's crazy how much has changed inthat house that time. Too. Bought
a house in that time. Yeah, we were living at ooh. Speaking
of okay, you said this isyour first house or only house we've ever
bought. We bought it a yearand a half after we got married.
Okay, So did you have firsthouse troubles or is this like you got
lucky and got a good house ata good price. It was weird because
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this was, I mean ten yearsago. The housing market was way different.
Our house was on the market forlike six months, and the people
who had lived there were the originalowners and they both passed away within like
six months of each other. Huh, and so it it'd SaaS. When
we toured it, it was Februaryand all the water in the toilet was
frozen. Oh I'll never forget thatbecause they didn't turn any of the heat
one and so that was a littletroubling. The house needed a lot of
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work, and we've been doing thatover the years. We just readid our
kitchen this summer. That was abig project for us. So, you
know, regardless of what happens,we're never gonna let go of the house
because at this point we could rentit for like triple what our mortgage is.
Yeah, and so like that couldbe something that helps us move.
Yeah, yeah, that's a greatidea. We our first house was just
an absolute dumpster fire. Yeah,it was the worst. And that's when
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I had started on the show.I was only doing I think it was
only doing nights at the time.So like we bought the house that I
could afford at the time, becausebasically essentially, like I grew up on
the radio station straight out of collegetwenty one year and not even twenty one.
I was only twenty years old,and uh so like grew up.
So like everybody in West Michigan hasknown me as probably two or three different
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names, and so then now tocome to the show, like it's like
those years of like true adulthood,like I I went, we had that
house, dude, and literally ithad a hole in the roof the week
that I moved in, it wasthe furnace went out. And I would
love to hear first house or firstor bad home stories six one, six,
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seven, seven oh eight, oneoh four, because I think you
found like a unicorn. It's veryrare that you it had. It's the
first night we moved in. Wedidn't notice because we didn't test the hot
water. The shower did not havehot water, you know, God bless
him. My I had an uncle, he passed away a couple of years
ago, but he came out thatnight from Detroit and was like, I'm
gonna fix your pipes, and hedid, came out and we had hot
water three hours later. That wasnice. It was so nice. I
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desperately missed that man. He wasa good guy. We had a flooded
basement Sover. We live by ariver, so every spring that water would
go up and the water table wouldgo up in the basement. Would it
was. I used to call itlike when we were going to sell the
house, I was like, shouldI put we have an indoor pool in
the house. It was so fuckingbad. It was so bad. Donnie,
you gotta call in. You gottacall in Donnie six six seven eight
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four. She says her basement startedto flood a month after they bought the
house. That's devastating, yes,yeah, and then there's not like you
have to report that. Yeah,you have to report like my house flooded
and explain like that you've tried tofix it, and then it takes the
value down. The only reason Ithink we sold that house in the time
that we sold it is because thehousing market changed right around twenty twenty.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it went it skyrocketed. YEP.
I gotta switch a setting here becausewe got a call coming in fun for
my first call, I think it'sDonnie. If I had to guess,
Hello, hey Mike, it's Donnie. Donnie. Oh you can't we do
that? Yeah, well, I'lljust turn off the mics while she's stuck
and go ahead, Donny. Wouldyou want to say? Oh? I
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was just saying. After my husbandand I bought our first home, it
started to flood in the basement likea month after we bought it. And
it was so scary because when webought our house, I think we had
like less than a thousand bucks inour bank account, so we couldn't do
a whole lot. It's so scarybuying a home. Was that your first
house? Yeah? First house?And so since then, I'm assuming you
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moved correct? No? No,no, no, no, I mean
we got it. We gotta fix. I mean, it's just like the
pipes are just weird. But no, my husband is very awesome and he
could do things that I know hecould, and I mean it's fixed.
We're good. It's just scary.See. I wish I had that ability,
like I could YouTube some things,like I could put on like a
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I could I could fix or puttogether a LI switch. That's about as
far as I go. But yourhusband can like build stuff like that's my
husband is crazy, crazy cool.That's awesome. And what I forget?
What area are you in too?We're on no Vi no Vie. That's
right, that's right, Yeah,it is absolutely is. Well that's just
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where we work, but we welive in Lavonia area. Oh okay,
okay, Well I appreciate Donnie.I always appreciate you. But it was
so good to see you. Itwas so good to see you Friday.
Was it Friday night? Saturday Friday? It was a wild night. It
sounded like it. I'll talk toyou later. Yeah, so, uh
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we got some more comments here.Sarah says, we had a just coozy
tub put in our house. Oh, first night there, I went to
use it. The water heater wasn'tbig enough to fill it. So what
does that do? Then? Doesthat make it hold water? I had?
That's so the house that we movedin the same one. It was
the first house had We didn't knowabout the roof. They hid that.
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They basically covered it with shingles.So there was a hole. They covered
it with shingles and the heat wentout the first week that we moved in.
But The only reason I bought thehouse is because it had one of
those jacuzzi same as her. Ithad a jacuzzi bathtub. It was the
only nice thing in the entire house. And I'm like, this is the
greatest my wife for and I aregoing to use this all the time.
(31:29):
We maybe used it three times,maybe used it three Meghan, says.
Megan Rankin says. When we wereselling our house, my neighbor ended up.
WHOA, this story went sideways quick. I'm gonna read it, but
it went sideways quick. When wewere selling our house, my neighbor ended
up killing someone in a hit andrun. WHOA? Okay, Megan,
(31:55):
I would love for you to callin because I have a million questions.
But if you can only answer onhere, the number is six one,
six, seven, seven out eightone oh four. If that happens,
Adam, that happens in your neighborhood, right, you just move in even
today, something like that happens inyour neighborhood? Are you moving? Are
you staying in that neighborhood? Howclose to my house was the hidden run?
It? Does it? I mean, I'm not even saying it's the
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hit and run happens by your house. I'm saying, your neighbor does it.
Oh, my neighbor kills somebody.Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm not entirely sure my neighbor hasn'tkilled somebody. I think we all
got that one neighbor. I thinki'd probably stay, depending on which neighbor
it was. I have one thatwould creep me out enough, I'd probably
fail. I don't know. Iget you're right, though. There is
always that one. There's always thatone. If you post it the other
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day, your neighbor cutting is grassat night, dude, dude. This
guy i've met, I met.So the way my house is set up,
I have a neighbors on two cornersand then I'm kind of on the
corner of my block or whatever.So the two neighbors, when I first
met him, they were very adamantto a show me where the lines were.
That's right, right, right,right right. But they also pee
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on it just to you know exactlywhat it was. That's exactly what it
was. So I U the oneneighbor I don't even talk to, and
the other neighbor, he only isoutside to mow his lawn. And this
guy is very Their lawns look incredible. Now my lawn is is it's it's
an average lawn if I'm seeds.Yeah, so this guy will mow his
(33:19):
lawn at night, and then itbrings up the question why at night?
Like is there a reason for atnight? But also why do lawn mowers
have have lights on them if notto mow the lawn at night? So
then maybe I'm the weird one fornot mowing my lawn at night. No,
you're not. That's weird. Ithought so too, But they're there
the second I moved in, andthe line's not even correct, so eventually
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I want to correct him. Ijust have a reason to, Like,
if I wanted to put up afence, like I would just go and
get a like all that, butI want to be because they were so
petty about it when I first movedin there. Yeah, I now my
other two neighbors, like right acrossthe street some of the best human beings
I'll ever I've ever met. Mytoo. I go watch uh football games
in my neighbor's garage. Just thosedudes. Just I don't understand it,
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but just those dudes. Megan hascommented again and said this is the the
hit and run story said he gotrid of the car the very next day.
We had police in front of thehouse watching him. That is a
wild story. So they hit andkilled somebody, yes, and they the
next day got rid of the car. Yes, and so then police yeah.
(34:29):
And then so then after that thepolice were sitting outside. So now
you have to sit outside, likesit outside and watch her, or sit
and look outside your hot window andwatch the neighbors get basically raided. Yeah,
I think I'm done. Then thenthat's gonna do it. They said
it wasn't far from Grand Rapids.You'd probably remember it. I don't remember
that story. That's kind of crazy. Maybe your neighbors moe at night because
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they're allergic to the sun because they'revampires. You could be right, you
were hundred percent, could be right. He went on the house on the
run, his house was rated.I don't know. Okay, my god,
that's that's that's a good question.What is the thing though, that
if your neighbor did it, Ifyour neighbor did it, it was in
Toledo, That's what Megan's saying.If your neighbor did it, though,
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you would move, Like, whatis the line because my neighbor's dog hoops
in my lawn every now and then. And that's not the that's not the
line. I'm not gonna move,No, but I'm not. Yeah,
yeah, oh god, what isthe line in today's housing market? I
don't know. I don't know.I don't know. I think if I
lived in an area where like abunch of people were having parties, that
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might be it. I mean i'dprobably go join though, yeah, well
not with this job anymore though,because bed time's eight thirty. Yeah I
might. I might every now andthen, I guess if it got out
of hand, But that wouldn't bethe thing though right now that I think
would make me move. We havea neighbor that I think if she got
worse, we would move. Shecomments on all the other houses like she's
like a hundred and just has nothingbetter to do than to just be outside
(35:58):
and like watch all of us.And apparently she talk ship to other neighbors
about other neighbors. Are you serious, Oh it's awful. Yeah, we
all don't like her, so we'reall kind of just like counting down the
days, you know, a hundred. Oh yeah, i'd start zillowing that
house, Like how much is that? Oh we did. It's like one
point two mill and it's a crossthe street from ours and ars isn't word
near that. I don't know howthis lady, Oh, yeah, totally.
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She's got she's got some cash,that's for. She gets a new
car every year, and she's stilldriving. She can barely see you over
the steering wheel. I guess that. I guess if I'm one hundred and
I got millions just sitting there,I might just judge the neighbors. That's
all she does. Got the better. Apparently I need to cut my grass
more. She told the next doorname of that told me, I hate
the lawn police. I hate hatelike I got kids, I got stuff.
(36:43):
Yeah, mine's bad right now,I'll be honest. But it's gonna
snow like monday. Yeah all right, right, got time for that.
Megan is telling more of this story, and I got she's working. Oh
I wish she could call in.We could write you a letter. Yeah,
got to work for like fifteen minutes. Yeah, she says, the
cops couldn't prove it it was him, but Google Maps had just updated and
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you could see the car and thedriveway. Tell me it didn't have like
a blood dead to the man hekilled was just crossing the road and was
in his seventies. That is thecraziest fucking story in the entire world.
That is absolutely insane because there's somany questions that I have with that.
Like, first, my next thingI will angle, I would want to
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take on this is like, howdid Google bust you? How did Google
Maps bust you? Did? GoogleMaps? Like, I'm sure Google Maps
has busted people before. Oh,Schmidy did a story on our show recently
where Google Maps had driven by andsaw a dude kissing a chick that wasn't
his wife. See, I betit happens more and more and more.
I watch out that car man.They're gonna be cheating if you're doing shady
(37:50):
stuff. Yeah yeah, the moralof the stories don't do shady stuff.
Yeah, Donnie says. My neighborsliterally leaf blowed the driveway eighty seven times
a day. Cann't tell you though, Like that's annoying, but also there
is something satisfying about leaf blowing.I don't know why. What else is
satisfying is when the snow just coversthem all. Don't do it? Oh
(38:12):
well, Adam, thank you somuch for coming on. I do appreciate
it. It's we're already forty fiveminutes in. You gotta be kidding.
Yeah, I know what. I'msure you're tired. You've been here since
three o'clock in the morning. Iappreciate it. Thank you for the opportunity.
Like, it's just so cool tobe able to do this, and
I how much I can kiss yourass, But like I look up to
you so much, I'm gonna needyou to tongue things and then you can
(38:34):
be done. Okay, that's fine, you have to talk to Ali.
You know. I appreciate you andeverybody I get to learn from here.
It has been an absolute dream crewthe last eight months. And you know,
for those watching or listening later,thirty five is not too old to
change your career or whatever. Ageis not too old to change your careers.
Follow what you want to do.Yeah, it's like, so you
were gonna end with this. Idon't know why I didn't even think that.
(38:55):
It's a slightly missy show. Uppathetic, absolutely Lee pathetic. Love
the show. You guys are doinga great job with Mike and Megan. M
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